CFML to HTML

[Loony2nz]

Is there a way to convert a whole ecommerce site with all of it's many products
from CFML to HTML for easy spidering?
I haven't found any snippets anywhere. Can someone point me in the right
direction on how to do this myself or to acquire a module that's already made
(who wants to re-invent the wheel?)?

Thanks!
Chris

[Brian Hogue]

Why can't you spider the CFML?

-brian

"Loony2nz" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to convert a whole ecommerce site with all of it's many

products

> from CFML to HTML for easy spidering?
> I haven't found any snippets anywhere. Can someone point me in the right
> direction on how to do this myself or to acquire a module that's already

made

> (who wants to re-invent the wheel?)?
>
> Thanks!
> Chris
>

[Loony2nz]

It's a known fact that for SEO, spidering links that are static HTML files is
better for positioning than spidering a dynamic page.

[url]www.mystore.com/product1.html[/url]
is easier to spider than say:
[url]www.mystore.com/product_detail.cfm?cat=20&id=32&subcat=3[/url]

My current ecommerce store, I had to buy a module that would translate my php
dynamic store catalog into individual HTML pages (great for site maps and
spiders).

I was wondering if there's a module for CF that does the same. I'd love to
make my own, but my CF skills aren't that advanced. So, I'd buy one if it were
out there, then move to a CF ecommerce host.

hope that clarifies my question :)

Thanks!

[MattRobertson]

There are a variety of techniques to do this.

You can use cfhttp to publish a site in .html. Make sure your code recognizes
the fact that its not running on a dynamic page. Don't bother with things like
cart display for example, and your CF sessions are subject to expiration since
you will be hitting .html and cf pages.

Or you could do the above and publish to a static .cfm. This will keep the
page above CF's radar in terms of session expiry. You can also go to a lot
more work and your publishing process can build parts of a template into a
variable string, and then use cfcontent to publish a whole page with content
and cf code intact, keeping your dynamic bits like "x items in cart". Very
complicated and a major PITA to implement.

Or if your system is db-driven, you could add a field to the page record that
is its 'friendly' name. Then work in code that will -- if no url parameters
are found -- search for the friendly name and transparently bring up the proper
data. Everything stays dynamic.

I wrote an article in CFDJ years ago that showed still another way, which I
called "pseudo-static" pages, where you made copies of your core template with
cffile and your page builder named each copy to the page name you specify.
Then more CF code parsed out the page name and used that to figure out what
data to display.

Seems crazy at first but it is blindingly simple to implement and the pages
remain totally dynamic, which depending on your resource usage and frequency of
updates may or may not be good. The article was entitled "Disappear From The
Invisible Web".

All of the above methods are used in my ContentMonger Pro cms. Not sure if
the free ContentMonger Lite retains any of that code. I might have chopped it
out.

--Matt--
MSB Web Systems... [url]http://mysecretbase.com[/url]
"People will sleep better not knowing how their sausage and politics are made."
- Bismarck

[OldCFer]

What about using cfsavecontent to enclose the cfml template, and save the
variable to a file with an html extension.